> > This could be made much easier if Sugar apps prompted the user for > > tags when shutting down an application. > > Yes, I think we need to assume this model. I don't think this is > going to break the basic paradigm of Sugar, since this prompt need > only happen for *new* activities. Anything which has been previously > kept in the Journal will continue to autosave.
Warning -- when you tell the system to shut down, from the XO-man menu, some existing Sugar apps are hanging instead, prompting the user about whether to save a useless Journal entry about themselves, or whether to just quit. I noticed this in a late 8.2.0. (A normal Linux shell "shutdown now" command will tell all processes to terminate ("kill -TERM"), wait about 30 seconds to give them all a chance to do it nicely, then will kill any remaining ones off nastily ("kill -KILL") and shut down the system. I didn't wait around long enough to see whether Sugar's shutdown hung forever, or did that too. I strongly recommend that Sugar reimplement what long experience has showed was useful: do what the user told you to, don't let individual activities make the system hang forever by asking stupid questions.) John PS: Wasn't Sugar going to be a modeless, promptless GUI for pre-literate people? :-/ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar